Collaborative Resource Allocation for Affected Los Angeles Regions Leveraging Mobile Energy Storages

Electric vehicles (EVs) batteries, as self-healing resources, can provide electricity to survive critical loads during power disruptions and restore normal operations. However, the accessibility of personal EVs, their battery size, the lack of personalized incentives, and battery degradation concerns hinder the contribution of personal EVs to power outage restoration. This paper proposes a collaborative mechanism design leveraging mobile energy storage (MES) providers for the on-disaster resource allocation problem by adopting the cooperative game theory application. The proposed mechanism aims to maximize the MES providers' profit, maximize the electrical load survivability, and minimize the power outage restoration time. The obtained results on recent power outage records in Los Angeles show a dramatic increase in MES providers' profits when they decide to cooperate in re-energizing the electrical load of the affected regions. Moreover, the proposed collaborative power outage restoration results in an increase in electrical demand fulfillment and a decrease in the restoration duration.